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Europe's largest low cost airline, Ryanair, will enter the Bosnian market this year by introducing flights to Banja Luka. It comes following protracted talks with the government of the Entity of Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The carrier will introduce two weekly services from Charleroi Airport in Belgium, each Monday and Friday, starting October 29, as well as from Memmingen in Germany from October 30, each Tuesday and Saturday. The Prime Minister of the entity, Željka Cvijanović, has said that "several additional destinations will also be launched" by the airline in the coming period. Tickets for the new routes are already available for purchase through the carrier's website.
Commenting on the new route, Ryanair’s Sales and Marketing Executive for Belgium, Helene Begasse, said, “We are pleased to announce a new Brussels Charleroi to Banja Luka route commencing this November. This new route marks Ryanair's entry into Bosnia and Herzegovina, and wi…

The world's largest carrier, American Airlines, is considering introducing seasonal flights to Dubrovnik. According to the "TangoSix" portal, the company is in talks with the airport over a seasonal service from Philadelphia. A decision on the matter is expected within the next month. American operates a number of seasonal flights to Europe from its Philadelphia hub including Athens, Barcelona, Budapest, Frankfurt, Glasgow, Lisbon, Prague, Shannon and Venice. This year, the airline expanded its reach from Philadelphia into Europe with seasonal flights to Budapest and Prague. Both are operated by its Boeing 767-300 aircraft. The move is seen as affirming American’s commitment to Philadelphia as a trans-Atlantic gateway.
Dubrovnik Airport has identified the United States and South Korea as two far-away markets which could sustain services to the coastal city. Speaking to EX-YU Aviation News, Dubrovnik Airport's General Manager, Frano Luetić, said, "These two far-…

Adria mulls Bern base

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Adria Airways has confirmed it is considering opening a base in the Swiss capital of Bern following the bankruptcy of the city's main carrier SkyWork Airlines last week. Adria's Chief Commercial Officer, Christian Schneider, told the "Austrian Aviation" portal, "The situation on the Bern market has changed and we are now examining opportunities, but we have not yet finalised any plans. For example, we see potential in flights to Munich and London City. We are considering it but there is no concrete decision yet". Adria intended on opening a base in the city last year with two Saab 2000 turboprop aircraft after Swiss authorities temporarily grounded SkyWork Airlines for a short period of time. However, it shelved such plans after the airline managed to retain its Air Operator's Certificate. At the time, the Slovenian airline intended on launching flights from Bern to Munich, Vienna, Berlin and Hamburg.

Other carriers are also eyeing opportunities in Bern with Helvetic Airways, People's Viennaline and JetClass also planning new flights to the Swiss city. Adria will open another new base next month, with the carrier to introduce flights from the German city of Paderborn to Zurich, Vienna and London Southend. Outside of Ljubljana, the Slovenian carrier boasts a base in Pristina from which it handled 177.166 passengers in 2017. Last year, Adria closed down its base in Lodz in Poland. Over the past few years it has also considered stationing an aircraft in Klagenfurt in Austria, as well as Verona and Bratislava.

Meanwhile, Adria is finalising plans for the upcoming winter season. As EX-YU Aviation News learns, the carrier is preparing to wet-lease aircraft and crew to a record number of airlines as part of its developing ACMI business which has received a further boost with the recent arrival of Saab 2000 aircraft. However, the airline is also looking into wet-leasing its Bombardier and Airbus equipment as well. Last week, Mr Schneider noted, "From the winter season moving forward, I expect more stability, and our dedication will be aimed at restoring our customer’s confidence and improving the quality of services".

I don't think that JP is stupid. They are carefully picking up on routes and LJU is apparently quite limited as a market. We have repeated this several times, that LJU is just close to many many big airports nearby and with Schengen it's just super easy. You take the car and bus...park the car, take the plane and get back.Trieste Airport for instance has registered almost 800,000 passengers in 2017 which was somewhere between PUY and SJJ in terms of traffic and will soon be served with LH!Of course, geographically LJU is the most northern part of the Balkans but also strategically located to many cities.And of course, the biggest shark is VCE and you also have TSF.

E90 actually stucked in development that's why it wasnt successful. E2 is technically different story but if it's not taken over by major manufacturer would happen the same like with CS if ABus would not take over.

Would be nice if they open LJU -ATHENS route , in the same hours as Kiev so night flight to Athens and morning flight back to LJu , they would catch so many transfer passengers and so many slovenian pax :) would be nice to think about that :)

What about LJU -ATHENS route ? they could get so many transfer passengers , if hours would be the same as Kiev., night flight to Athens ,and morning flight back to Lju , and they could get so many pax also from slo:)

Adria needs to start serving the Adriatic coast. They should reach out to ZAD as they are experiencing a really bad year, second month of consecutive passenger decline. The airport should be desperate enought to work with them.

I invite the ZAD management to visit DBV :) the problem is not with Zadar but with the management. DBV has the most western management in the whole area.But JP failed with BWK so I doubt there will be demand for ZAD, but maybe yes.

Well let's hope for the best. In fact these routes are for feeding Star alliance (Lufthansa group) hubs, but in this situation this is it what Adria can get as member of Star alliance. Adria is just regional airline with very small base of potential travellers on scheduled routes out from Slovenia. In this situation there is just no other way for it than to expand on other markets too.

Agree. JP needs to try something different, since what it is doing now is not setting the world on fire. They shouldnt be critised for trying. You should only critise decisions which are repeated & failed ones rather ones which are different to existing ones.

I get it, JFK will be profitable ... in the future. But it's apples and oranges. JFK is politicaly run project with government money and support, Adria is trying to be a self-sustaining entity on the free market.

There is zero economical sense in Adria getting one or two widebodies. The end.

Does anyone know when JP plans to publish their winter schedule? The article says they are finalising their schedule. Any information if they will launch LED?

Do you think that the use SAABs will have an impact on the prices of routes, on which they will deploy them? Everyone keeps saying how expensive and cost ineficient this planes are, so this should mean the prices will go up.

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